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Not true. We booked one of our cruises in April 2022 for March 2023 and have now taken advantage of five price drops totalling almost $2800.

Also well worth my time today. Saved on three of our four cruises booked including a group one which we are covering the cost of four cabins so that came out to a nice sum.

Thank you.

Any update on the Epic?

Have an wonderful sailing Jamie!!! And, thank you for reporting.

It really depends on the itinerary. We booked June 2024 to Bermuda in February 2022 and that sailing had already been up for at least a few months. We are waiting for Alaska 2025 to open up. When NCL changed their website, they made it much easier to see all of the available cabins.

I was a participant in the prior Joy aft threads since we also were looking to upgrade ourselves to an Aft cabin for our February 2022 sailing. We decided not to take the chance and upgraded to another Haven cabin. However, as early risers, the first morning around 4:00 a.m. we took an early morning walk and checked out the aft situation and clearly felt and heard the vibration. This was in February and I have not read any recent updates. Hopefully, someone will have more recent information.

An over-the-door shoe rack that we use for just not shoes. Helps us keep the clutter on the counters down to a minimum.

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and experience. Looking forward to reading the rest.

This category is a Club Suite and not a regular Suite so there are no extra Latitudes points without a promotion.

Our Haven cabin for our March 18, 2023 Epic sailing has had five price drops since we booked this past April totalling $2,496.60. For this sailing, my gut is telling me the price will drop even further. If your sailing has a lot of cabins left in the category you want, I would wait. When the cabins available become sparse, I would book.

Thank you for confirming our thoughts.

Thank you for this topic as we will be sailing on the Jewel for the first-time next August and have only sailed on the breakaway class ships. Thank you for your explanation. This is exactly what I thought with my research. Right now, we are booked in an inside cabin with the intention of upgrading ourselves a few months out from sailing to a balcony or a non-Haven Suite. For us, the best part of our stay in the Haven was the restaurant so in our minds, it would not be worth it for us to upgrade to a Haven Suite since all of the other amenities are basically the same as in a non-Haven Suite. Am I correct?

I have also been following all of the reviews so far, and I feel the same way.

We are booked for our first Alaskan cruise for next August. We choose the Jewel for two reasons--longer port times then the Bliss and Encore and we wanted to embark/depart in Vancouver instead of doing the round trip out of Seattle. I do realize that they do not have the best "parking" places, but that is okay with us since we will have longer days in ports.

As was Margaritaville on the Escape when we first booked while it was being built. Then, a few weeks in, they started charging.

Ditto.................

I will be following along your journey and think you are off to a great start in sharing the details so far of your upcoming sailing. As someone who often travels with their parent (in my case my mid-eighties father), I do understand it makes the vacation a slightly different experience and does add more planning. However, I do cherish the times he has travelled with us.

I thought the same thing.

Thank you for taking the time to post your experience/thoughts so far.

Looking forward to reading about your sailing.

Have an wonderful sailing and looking forward to reading about it.

Interested also.........

Thank you for the new information. I will be sure to reserve one as soon as our excursions open up for our Encore sailing.

Do you still own the shares? I always wait till about 6 weeks before our sailings since I always wondered what would happen if I requested it a lot sooner when there would be a possibility that we sold our shares in the interim.